High precision focused irradiation in the form of fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy (SCRT) for benign meningiomas predominantly in the skull base location

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-109

  Jalali, R ^a   Loughrey, C ^a   Baumert, B ^a   Perks, J ^a   Warrington, A P ^a   Traish, D ^a   Ashley, S ^a   Brada, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MORBIDITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036527269     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/clon.2001.0040     Document Type: Article

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